Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.
then may others eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
You will plant but not harvest; you will press olives but not use the oil, you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.
I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.’
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country.
